Brian Prince

The Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council is encouraging retailers to take steps to better protect themselves from the Backoff point-of-sale (PoS) malware...

Microsoft has fixed and reissued a patch released earlier this month that left some users with the infamous 'Blue Screen of Death.' The patch...

The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Center for Secure Design has published some advice to help software developers dodge common mistakes that compromise security.

Google has plugged 50 security vulnerabilities in the latest update to the Chrome browser. Among the issues fixed in Chrome 37 are a number...

Security vendors have their eyes set on cloud and virtual environments this week as the VMworld conference in San Francisco gets underway.

Attackers are targeting Russian victims with a ruse designed to get them to install the Kelihos malware, according to security firm BitDefender. 

The days when the Black Hat USA and Defcon conferences are ongoing are two times when surfing the Internet in Las Vegas can be...

An analysis of free applications in the Google Play app store found many popular Android apps had SSL vulnerabilities that left them susceptible to...

The notorious Reveton ransomware has been updated to steal passwords and credentials, according to researchers with security firm Avast.

Researchers have identified a cyber-espionage campaign focused on Spanish-speaking countries. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have dubbed the attack 'Machete.' It is believed the attack...

When Community Health Systems revealed it had been breached, it joined a growing list of healthcare organizations and hospitals that have been hit by...

Two researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, released a paper introducing new attack techniques they contend break existing defenses against return-oriented programming (ROP).

It was 2010 when the Stuxnet malware first appeared in the public consciousness.Though the years have passed however, there is no shortage of machines...

New research from Kaspersky Lab shows that cyber-attack activity involving Syria is stepping up in terms of both sophistication and organization.

In an attacker's ideal world, he or she would infect a desktop, steal the user's RDP password and move smoothly across the network to...

Google is bolstering its Safe Browsing service with a new alert for potentially unwanted programs.

Cloud-based IT management vendor Kaseya has acquired Scorpion Software in a bid to build out a cloud authentication business.

BlackBerry released patches Tuesday to plug a pair of security vulnerabilities.

Microsoft and Adobe released a set of patches today to fix critical vulnerabilities in their products.

A leaked document believed to have come from a manufacturer of surveillance equipment shows Apple iOS is more resistant to the company's spyware than...